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Total citations

Online attention

This Altmetric score means that the article is:

in the 15th percentile
(ranked 160,560th) of the 219,603
tracked articles of a similar age in all journals

in the 12th percentile
(ranked 7th) of the 8
tracked articles of a similar age in Nature Communications

Twitter demographics

Country

Tweets

% of Tweets

United States

1

25.00%

No location data

3

75.00%

Explanation of terms and methodology

Sources

Web of Science, CrossRef and Altmetric

Citations

Single number count for article citations from each service's database may vary by service. The
citations counts are reliant on the availability of the individual APIs from Web of Science and
CrossRef. These counts are updated daily once they become available. Once a citation
count is available, the list of articles citing this one is accessible by clicking on the circle for
that citation source.

Altmetric score

Altmetric calculates a score based on the online attention an article receives. Each coloured
thread in the circle represents a different type of online attention and the number in the
centre is the Altmetric score. The score is calculated based on two main sources of online
attention: social media and mainstream news media. Altmetric also tracks usage in online
reference managers such as Mendeley and CiteULike, but these do not contribute to the score.
Older articles will typically score higher because they have had more time to get noticed. To
account for this, Altmetric has included the context data for articles of a "similar age"
(published within 6 weeks of either side of the publication date of this article).